It has been years since I've been doing exercises. 8 years maybe? I'm blessed with a fast metabolism, so I could eat whatever I want for years. But after hitting my 30 years, things started to change quite a bit. I think the most 'shocking' body transformation I went through, was during my depression. I didn't eat, sleep or move. So, you can imagine how 'thin' I was getting. That changed rapidly once I started to feel better. I ate more, still didn't move though, but I started to slowly take care more of myself day after day. To the point, I was just snacking bags of chips seconds after I finished my dinner. Not that I got extremely fat. But I did see my abs diminishing over time.
https://twitter.com/TheycallmeDan_/status/1684988630224539649
- TheycallmeDan_
This Tweet of @theycallmedan kinda motivated me to write about it. While I don't have a before picture of getting back in shape. I have a pretty 'confronting' selfie that I made eexactly for "how I was when I got here" vs "How I left".
Lol... you can tell how friggin' exhausted I am here. Cudos to myself for exposing myself like this on-chain 🤣.
But don't worry, no need to prepare your nightmares, this is me after just a week of being in Turkey. I'm still tired, but I can see a lot more change for the better.
So, what's the story?
At a young age, I started doing sports. Gymnastics. I won my first -first-place- prize in 1995, at the age of 7. I continued doing gymnastics for a couple of years but I got interested in many other sports for the years to come. Basketball, badminton, swimming, handball, but I found a passion in breakdance. It had everything to keep me in check, motivated, and pushed me to expand my (body) limits. Pushing myself was something that grew on me during the time of Dragonball Z's television debut. I was a huge fan of it and started doing an insane amount of pushups and sit-ups. Like, a few thousand a day lol.
And it kinda showed I guess... can't believe how fit I used to be and the way how I took it for granted.
Let's get fit again!
So, now I'm here in Turkey, I thought it was about time to get motivated and get on the move again. I started slowly with some 10-minute performance cardio and light-weighted dumbbells. I never went to the gym, breakdance was my gym. Full body control bruh. But yeah, I'm all new to these exercises, but I made a couple of friends here that invited me to train with them. These squads I was doing for the first time in my life... I can't walk anymore lol :D.
I probably won't do updates on my transformation, but maybe before I get back to Holland, I might give it a shot :).
One of the life lessons that I have to learn is to "love myself" more. If I put it like this, with selfies like this, it almost sounds and looks cringe I know, but to be honest, if we all were to do so, the place around us would be a much nicer place to roam around in.
Cheers,
Ruben